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About changing the summer clock...
...and below is the point
Summer clock changeover. The vast majority of people hate it, a minority hate it and almost no one likes it. It makes no sense and upsets a person’s biological clock. When I came and went in the world (before covid times) I heard from several people that on larger trips due to time differences, one rests an hour an hour in a day, and indeed when I traveled far, maybe I really needed so many days and though this 'daylight saving time' would only mean a one-hour shift, but it is somehow harder to get used to. I think this is because when we go somewhere, we have to switch to the Sun position there, but in summer time we have to adapt to an artificial situation.
The German Empire and the Monarchy were the first to use daylight saving time – to reduce artificial lighting and thus save energy – which was introduced in 1916 in the two countries. This was quickly adopted by several countries during World War I, but by the end of the war they had returned to normal time and its use did not even occur until the outbreak of World War II.
At the time, its introduction was completely understandable and logical, as was the time zones proposed by Sir Sandford Fleming of Canada in 1878, as the worldwide system of time zones we still use today. The Earth turns a circle, or 36o degrees, in 24 hours, which, divided into 24 parts, 15 degrees of longitude means a time zone, that is, an hour. Sir Fleming’s time zones have been proclaimed worldwide as a brilliant solution to a chaotic problem, in addition to which daylight saving time has since been introduced almost all over the world.
In each time zone, 15o half (7 and a half degrees in both directions) would be half an hour from the centerline of the time zone in both directions, but the time zones were logically aligned with national borders and each country reclassified to another zone for geographical or political reasons, so there are places where even a difference of more than an hour is possible compared to the real time given by the Sun. In a word like a hundred, in many places the official exact time is very different from the natural, Sun-given time.
We live in an artificial state of time, one of the projections of which is the time zones, the other from spring to autumn, the extra one hour of “summer time” shift, and the twice-yearly time shifts… and I thought about this: Those who live in the material world multiply because they don't realize how bad they have on our lives together, but who are more aware, it's clear that this artificial state of weather is not good and we would be much calmer, more balanced if we lived according to our natural, biological clock and many people around the world they are speaking out to end daylight saving time. Because it was invented, ie to reduce energy consumption from lighting, it has now become so small in proportion to total energy consumption that it makes no sense to maintain it any more than we are in the same time zones as it was invented, it was reasonable, but it is now obsolete.
In the old days, in the village-town, they knew where the shadows stood when it was noon, and the clock of the church, the tower, was adjusted accordingly. When they rang the bells, people knew exactly what time it was now, and if they might have had a clock at home, they adjusted it to that. When one set out, the time in the next city was the same as the Sun. around the turn of the century the exact time had to be standardized. However, the world has changed and today our phones and other time-sensitive devices switch on their own during the “summer-winter” transition, or if we move to a different time zone, they all switch on their own, so in this way, always, everywhere , the local time is shown to us.
From this follows the point, the question:
What if, in addition to daylight saving time, time zones were abolished,
and countries would set a medium term,
or do larger countries have more time bands for themselves?
How much would that change the official exact time?
The western and eastern ends of Hungary are 6o46′ apart, which means (15o=1 hour) 27 minutes 5 seconds. When it is noon according to the position of the Sun at Felsőszölnök at the west end, it is already 12:27 minutes at Garbolc at the east end, but if we measure these for the current official time, it is 12 noon in Hungary at 11 am in Greenwich, but according to the position of the Sun this would be 12 hours 4 minutes at Felsőszölnök, 12 hours 16 minutes at Budapest and 12 hours 33 minutes at Garbolc. While this is not a big difference, there are countries where it is much worse. For example, in France, where the west end is beyond Greenwich (W4o47’), which means that at 11 a.m. in Greenwich, the official time zone for the whole of France is 12 noon, but at the west end of France, the Sun is still only 10 hours 55 minutes. That is, there is a deviation of more than an hour from real time, or the average time in Spain is W3o, so the middle time is already west of Greenwich, so when it is south of Greenwich, according to the position of the Sun, the Spanish average is only 11 hours 48 minutes, or even the end of the country on the Atlantic side would still be only 11 hours 23 minutes (while according to the current time zone it is already there in the afternoon 1), i.e. there is more than an hour and a half difference!
The distance between the two ends of France is 12o58’, which is almost 1 hour (51 minutes 52 seconds) and a few more examples:
Spain (mainland): 12o36', 50 minutes 23 seconds,
Italy: 11o51’ east-west distance, which is 47 minutes 23 seconds,
Poland: The difference between the western and eastern ends is 10o degrees, ie 40 minutes,
Norway: 26o27 ', ie a time zone of almost two hours !!! 1 hour 45 minutes time interval,
Canada (to see larger countries): The same 88o17’ distance, which is 5 hours 53 minutes according to the Sun’s walk
and Australia: The east and west coasts are 41o4′ apart, which is a difference of 2 hours 44 minutes in this respect.
Based on these, if each country were to set its own exact time or time bands, they would only have to follow the rule that
the local time is exactly minutes,
or possibly with a five-minute consultation
be determined relative to Grennwich.
(The five-minute lane definition would be even more accurate and significantly clearer.)
It is also a question of whether in countries where the east-west distance is more or less an hour or, as in Norway, almost two, in the larger countries even more, one or half-hour time zones would be defined. This could be a country-specific decision, but geographically well-defined places (such as islands and sparsely populated larger areas) could in any case have their own middle ground. Corsica or Sardinia, for example, because if you travel by boat, ferry or plane, it would not be a nuisance that the exact time of departure differs by a few minutes from departure and in the example of these two islands: In France the center line is E1o45', Paris E2o21' surprisingly, these are also barely east of Greenwich), with a time line drawn in Paris the exact time would be 12:09, in Italy the mid-time line passes almost exactly in Rome at E12o35', which would show the hours at 12 noon and 50 minutes at 12 noon in Greenwich, but independently of these, the time specified on the two islands (they are located almost exactly on the same north-south line) on line E9o15' would be 12 hours 36 minutes.
Greenwich: 12:00
France: 12:09 or 12:10
Corsica and Sardinia: 12:36 or 12:35
Italy: 12:50
Why would this be better than determining the local time by time zone?
As I wrote above, because then we could live in a much closer chronological order to real time, which some people just dismiss as irrelevant, but who better, more consciously understand the bad effects of this time difference, understand why it would be better. Nothing would change in everyday life, nothing different because the clock in the neighboring countries is a little further away, and when traveling, people would know from the time of arrival that the exact time there is different from home. Just like now, when we travel to other time zones, it is completely irrelevant. Even now, when we are waiting for a sports broadcast in England, we know that a match starting at half past nine means half past eight for us, or when traveling at the border when our web-connected devices detect a transmitter tower in another country, they automatically switch to that time zone and this it would work the same way, just not an hour jump the official time for this or that, but just a few minutes.
Would it cause any problem that when it is 10:20 in Hungary, it is only 9:55 in Austria or 10:00 hours in the Czech Republic? Obviously not, but for the world to switch to such a timing, there is only a healthier, more lifelike state. Yet the switchover itself could be very simple and if someone says that but the switchover would come at a high cost, I think you are wrong about that. What would it be like if one day a country switched to astronomical time there? This would mean that, in Hungary, for example, the current time would shift from 0:00 a.m. to 0:20 p.m. This could be introduced with a single modification, because in the case of cross-border traffic this would be only a few minutes of difference, and the timetable of trains and buses would not be affected in practice, because they would only have to be rewritten in a few minutes. If someone is sitting on a plane and traveling from Budapest to Paris, for example, the current schedule is for the flight to depart at 12:15 and arrive at 14:40, and that all that would change is for the plane to depart at 12:30 and would arrive at 13:30 Paris time.
Would it matter that time is 'counted' differently in other countries? No, it wouldn't. Thus, everywhere the official exact time would be closer to the time of day of the place, and in larger countries it would be the decision of the country to set half or one hour time zones, which is more lifelike there, which would be more livable in everyday life.
All it takes is software that can handle it all, so that our devices show the exact time not according to the location of the transmission tower, but according to the location of the device, and yes, the decision should be: Yes, so be it!
It is known that it would be impossible to introduce this at the same time worldwide, but still… because one country could introduce it on its own, as it still happens that one country or another switches to another time zone. (I will now dispense with any conventions and agreements that would say that they cannot be denounced because any convention can be denounced.)
A map of such timings:
The middle times of the countries of Europe and the two islands mentioned above are:
Also to the map:
- As you can see, these are 'five minute' band definitions,
- The mid-time lines on the map are now only approximate,
- I did not draw the center lines of city states and smaller countries due to lack of space,
- As the time interval is more than two hours in Norway, there are three time zones on the map:
) one close to the capital Oslo, 40 minutes from Greenwich,
) is at the second Tromsø, a further 40 minutes from the first line (1 hour 20 minutes from Greenwich),
) at the northern, eastern end of Norway from Tromsø for an additional half hour, which means 1 hour 50 minutes at 12 noon in London. In the northern part of Norway, close to the North Pole, the time zones are much narrower, so there 'time passes faster', you have to walk less than an hour, but it is sparsely populated, so deviations from several time zones would not be a problem in everyday life. alive and the schedule would be viable.
- The east-west width of Ukraine is about 2 hours, so I drew two time zones there.
What is against it? Perhaps the only thing (which is not 'only' but above all in today’s world) is that for most leaders in the world and countries today, it is important for people to live in an artificial, boxed system, because for them, this 'system-built world' is much clearer. and in this system the masses are also more manageable, but let us hope that perhaps we will still be able to create a state close to the natural in the world.
Although it was just a 'what would be if' contemplation that it could be so, and if we look at how often it is difficult to introduce a novelty, it may seem almost hopeless, but seeing the world, we can also see that due to a better daily schedule, a country has moved to another time zone or may have thought about it, so maybe it's not impossible after all. It is characteristic of a person to think in templates, so it did not occur to them that there is life 'outside the time zones', even though there is. Therefore, perhaps it is worth thinking about this: What if…